Chalmers Splendide Californie Book Club of California 2001 Review
Californiana and San Francisco
Recollections of a California Pioneer
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelvemo size, 235 pp. Written after the author had passed 88 years of age, this of import early piece of work follows his decision as a young man to leave his home in the East to seek gold in California in 1850. The..... More
A California Golden Rush Miscellany; Comprising: the Original Periodical of Alexander Barrington, Nine Unpublished Letters from the Gold Mines, Reproductions of Early on Maps and Towns from California Lithographs; Broadsides, etc. etc.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, unnumbered, Second Series of Rare Americana, No. four, quarto size, lx pp. This collection of miscellany was carefully selected to requite an honest and accurate viewpoint of the early mining days in California from the..... More
Designs on the State, Diseños of California Ranchos
San Francisco: The Volume Club of California (printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem), 1969. Express Edition. Hardcover. 1 of 500 copies, ellipsoidal elephant folio size, [178] pp. The Book Lodge of California publication number 133, being a sequel to Robert Becker's earlier club publication of 1964 (no. 118). This..... More
Splendide Californie!; Impressions of the Golden Land by French Artists, 1786 to 1900
San Francisco: The Book Guild of California [designed by The Yolla Bolly Press], 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, unnumbered, page size, 159 pp. After moving from Cannes, France, to Northern California, historian and researcher Claudine Chalmers was captured past the history and landscape of the Golden State;..... More
Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texas in '51); Number Seven of the Rare Americana Serial Printed & Published past The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco in May, 1933.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ane of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly cocky-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on pes across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico..... More than
Pen-Knife Sketches, or, Chips of the Old Block; A Series of Original Illustrated Letters, Written by 1 of California'southward Pioneer Miners, and Dedicated to that Form of Her Citizens by the Author. Reprinted from the Only Edition (1853) with the Illustrations by Charles Nahl and a New Foreword by One thousand. Ezra Dane.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Nahl, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, eighty pp. Alonzo Delano (1806 - 1874), who went by the pen proper noun "Erstwhile Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Aureate Rush Xl-niner; his sketches of gold rush army camp life rivaled..... More
The Duchow Periodical; A Voyage from Boston to California
[Kentfield, California]: Mallette Dean (laid out at The Allen Press), 1959. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies., quarto size, [66] pp. The lively firsthand business relationship of John Charles Duchow's voyage on the Clipper Staffordshire from Boston around Cape Horn, on his way to California. Afterward the Allens..... More
The First Californiac; Existence a Reprint of "Prospects of California" Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April one, 1848 Consequence of "The California Star", San Francisco'southward First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan was the Publisher
San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942. Walker, Lawrence E. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1 of 225 copies, duodecimo size, 61 pp. The exploration of California led many people to write effusively of the merits of Golden Land, and Victor Fourgeaud (1815-1875) does so here in this reprint..... More
Controversial James; An essay on the life and work of George Wharton James
San Francisco: (Printed at the Yolla Bolly Press for) The Book Gild of California, 1991. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, quarto size, [112] pp., with original purchase invoice from the Book Club laid in. A biography and bibliographical checklist of George Wharton James (1858-1923). James was the..... More
German Travelers in California
Fairfax, California: The Roxburghe Gild of San Francisco (printed by Mallette Dean), 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 125 copies, octavo size, xl pp. Henry Miller Madden (1912-1982?) served as the University librarian at CSU-Fresno for xxx years, and was, in improver, an author, scholar, and translator in his ain..... More
Infra Nubem, The Lights Outside, La Bocana; Philopolis Series
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (Philopolis Press), 1909. Express Edition. Hardcover. No. 2 of 500, duodecimo size, 47 pp. Written by American meteorologist Alexander McAdie (1863-1943), who made many advances in the field of meteorology and was also in charge of the U.Due south. Atmospheric condition Agency in San Francisco from 1903..... More
John Ignatius Bleasdale: A Friend of Wine in New Worlds
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2006. Limited Beginning Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, 75 pp. John Ignatius Bleasdale (1822-1884) was a Catholic clergyman, who took his knowledge of wine making from Victoria to California during the early days of the California wine industry. The Book..... More than
Aerial/Map Volume of Contra Costa County, California (Real Estate Atlas of Contra Costa County, California)
Miami, FL: Existent Manor Data, Inc., 1980. Softcover. Oblong atlas folio size, 581 pp., 17th Edition. While the western portion of Contra Costa County, California was fully developed by 1960, primarily due to industrial development during World War II, the central and eastern portions are now far different from how..... More
A Long Walk Downtown; Photographs of Los Angeles & Southern California, 1936-1991
San Francisco: The Book Society of California [printed at the shop of Patrick Reagh], 2012. Reagh, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, quarto size (oblong), 138 pp., with prospectus. Lensman William Reagh (1911-1992) was fascinated by the metropolis of Los Angeles, and his photographs of the city document..... More
Gleanings By the Way, From '36 to '89
Topeka, Kansas: Privately Printed / Geo. W. Crane & Co., Printers and Binders, 1890. Starting time Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 262 pp., inscribed by the Rev. Sheldon. Presentation copy from the author to his daughter, per a typed note tipped onto the verso of the flyleaf (straight reverse the title page)..... More
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Sutro Baths, Cliff Firm, Sutro Heights [wrapper title: Sutro Baths, Heights and Cliff Business firm]
[San Francisco]: [Engravings fabricated past S.F. Photo Engraving Co., Sacramento], c. 1895. Taber, [Isaiah West]. Wraps. Oblong octavo, 96 pp. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912), a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, came to California soon after the gold rush began on the ship "Friendship". After trying his manus at mining, ranching..... More
Beyond The Sierras; or, Observations on the Pacific Coast
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1877. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 259 pp., inscribed past "the author" As a current volume review stated, "Information technology seems like a dream to have seen the first vessel sailing for this El Dorado in 1848, and now within thirty years to be reviewing the..... More
St. Francis Forest Promotional Carte du jour
San Francisco: The Blair-Murdock Company, ca. 1913. Treidler, Adolph. No binding. Quarto size, a single sail. Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) was an illustrator of posters and commercial art, best known for his Globe State of war I propaganda posters featuring women working in munitions plants; he was a member of the Society of..... More than
A Sojourn in California past The King'due south Orphan; The Travels and Sketches of Grand.M. Waseurtz af Sandels, a Swedish gentleman who visited California in 1842-1843
San Francisco: The Book Lodge of California, Printed at the Grabhorn Printing, 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 330 copies (unnumbered), folio size, 103 pp., with dust jacket and prospectus. This narrative follows the travels of Dr. Sandels, a self-described physician, mining expert, and naturalist whose truthful identity remains shrouded..... More
California
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1871. Hardcover. Octavo size, 59 pp. Marshall P. Wilder gave the lecture printed in this book "following a visit to California for the examination of its agricultural and horticultural resources" (per Cowan), first to the Boston Mercantile Library Association in 1870; the book contains detailed information..... More than
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